The total bu**s**t "comparison of status/condition" images that supposedly show how much someone/something has been improved by your advertised products/services/philosophies. Often the "after" photos will have been re-touched to make the "result" look far better than it actually was, or the two sets of photos have merely been "switched" --- i.e., the "before" photos are actually of the deplorable/decrepit way that the person/object **presently looks**, and the "after" photos show how the person/object looked BEFORE you started messing around with your precious quackola "treatments" or "improvements"... in other words, the situation is EVEN WORSE OFF NOW THAT YOU'VE PRACTICED YOUR ADVERTISED TREATMENT, NOT BETTER!!!
This advertisement's "before and after" photos of people who were supposedly helped immensely by this fad diet certainly do look impressive at first glance, but I can't help observing that many of the people look noticeably **older** in the "before" photos... interesting...
by QuacksO November 11, 2018
Regretful soothing words dat you administer to someone else to supposedly make him feel better about a situation, but in reality you merely feel sorry for YOURSELF.
A classic "selfish sympathy" example, from an old "Peanuts" comic:
Schroeder, in exasperation at Lucy's pushy "over-attentiveness": Do you know what Beethoven never had?!
Lucy: What?
Schroeder, rantingly waving his arms above his head: Beethoven never had girls hanging on to his piano and bugging him about giving them presents!
Lucy, mildly shocked: He DIDN'T?! (pauses to ponder this fact) Poor Beethoven!
Schroeder, in exasperation at Lucy's pushy "over-attentiveness": Do you know what Beethoven never had?!
Lucy: What?
Schroeder, rantingly waving his arms above his head: Beethoven never had girls hanging on to his piano and bugging him about giving them presents!
Lucy, mildly shocked: He DIDN'T?! (pauses to ponder this fact) Poor Beethoven!
by QuacksO March 08, 2023
Many of da newer prop-twirlers --- regardless of who manufactures them --- are "Evinpolite" models because they utilize four-stroke systems dat are both less noisy and more efficient than two-stroke versions.
by QuacksO June 27, 2025
If befriending hippie-types is what floats yer boat, then attending a treevival gathering might be right up yer alley.
by QuacksO April 28, 2025
cliterature: "Steamy" prose or poetry.
eliterature: Writings regarding the "upper crust" in society.
fliterature: Books and magazines about birds and other winged creatures.
glitterature: Printed-matter puffery that's merely "all for show".
sliterature: "How to" publications about careful cutting an incising.
eliterature: Writings regarding the "upper crust" in society.
fliterature: Books and magazines about birds and other winged creatures.
glitterature: Printed-matter puffery that's merely "all for show".
sliterature: "How to" publications about careful cutting an incising.
I prefer just run-of-the-mill reading-material; no "special letter" literature for me, thank you very much!
by QuacksO October 04, 2020
A group of horny studs will likely raise total pandemoanium if at least one curvaceous chick isn't present for them to slake their massive pliable-protoplasm cravings upon; if such a amply-endowed gal does subsequently show up, however, da dudes' assorted throat-produced sounds of discontent will quickly be replaced with gratified sighs and coos as they gleefully partake of da luscious warmth and softness dat said fleshy female has to offer.
by QuacksO January 18, 2023
by QuacksO February 24, 2019